Ulrike Otinger. The Autobiography of Art Cinema

brilliantly unconventional investigation into the career of a visionary German filmmaker and the untimely death of art cinema
Laurence A. Rickels offers analyses of Ulrike Ottinger’s films, as well as her photographic artworks, situated within a dazzling thought experiment centered on the history of art cinema. In addition to commemorating the death of a once-vital art form, this book also affirms Ottinger’s defiantly optimistic turn toward the documentary film as a means of mediating present clashes between tradition and modernity, between the local and the global.